Head

Driver Assistance and Chassis Systems

Board Memberships and Affiliations

Honorary Professor

TUB

Perhaps surprisingly, according to Professor Ralf Herrtwich, head of driver assistance at Daimler's advanced development department, the hardware to do that isn't much more advanced than what's already fitted to the top-spec S-class.Herrtwich was responsible for the recent 60-mile autonomous drive through real cities and rural roads in Germany.

I noted that in his keynote address the day before, Ralf Herrtwich, the head of Daimler's research program on self-driving cars, had emphasized the importance of a multiplicity of cameras, radars, and other sensors.
What, I asked, would Herrtwich say about Magna's one-camera demonstration?

topmodelagency.info... The next giant leap in sensing will be radio networking that enables cars to exchange information. â€œ Communication[ between cars] will be like an additional sensor,â€ says Ralf Herrtwich, director of vehicle IT research at DaimlerChrysler.
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The next giant leap in sensing will be radio networking that enables cars to exchange information. â€œ Communication[ between cars] will be like an additional sensor,â€ says Ralf Herrtwich, director of vehicle IT research at DaimlerChrysler.
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Ralf G. Herrtwich is with Daimler Group Research and Advanced Engineering since 1998.After ten years as Director for Infotainment and Telematics, he is now head of Driver Assistance and Chassis Systems, in charge of conceiving and developing future safety and comfort innovations for Mercedes-Benz.A computer scientist by education, Dr. Herrtwich started his career in academia at the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) and ICSI at UC Berkeley.He then held positions with IBM and several telecommunication start-ups before joining Daimler.Today, he also is honorary professor at TUB and Director of the Daimler Center for Automotive Information Technology Innovations (DCAITI) at the same university.

"For example, it became apparent that the recognition of traffic light phases under different lighting conditions and the correct pairing of individual traffic lights with traffic lanes represents a major challenge," explains Prof. Ralf Herrtwich, head of driver assistance and suspension systems at Daimler Group Research and Advance Development, a role in which he initiated the autonomous driving project.